Handi-mania!

So we've learned to be wary of the critter-huggers and lawyers. Who else need we fear? The handicapped! That's right boys and girls, if you take the initiative to be productive in our society and risk to run your own business that deals with the public you have to fear not necessarily those just unfortunate enough to be pysically handicapped, but those who are emotionally and ethically handicapped.

Imagine a time in your life when you were little. Mommy and daddy (or other parental/guardian units as applicable) promise to take you down to that special little restaurant or ice cream parlor that's a staple of your youth. You grow up with this iconic little place and take all of your friends and family from out of town to dine there when they come visit. Facebook explodes and maybe you even start a "fan's of xyz eatery" fanclub. Welcome to today's example of kookery threatening the world of the sane.

In 1990 Congress created and George H.W. Bush enacted a touchy-feely piece of law called the Americans with Disabilities Act. While the concept of providing reasonable access to those of our society with disabilities is laudable, the following years have shown that, as usual, with excessive governmental interference into our lives, the vagueness of the Act has led to rampant serial litigation that threatens innocent people trying to be productive members of society.

Enter Chuck's restaurant in Stockton, California with today's insanity. Decades have passed since this bill has passed. Never before have they had issue with folks using their restroom facilities, in walks our emotionally handi-capped antagonist. A serial litigator, the man strolls into the restaurant, finds problem with the accomodations, leaves and files suit. The restaurant now faces the real possibility of closing. Only after a major outrage and 4000 + member facebook group urging the saving of Chuck's grill, which can be read about here did the predatory litigator make more reasonable demands.

Do we really need to be ruled by the tyranny of the minority? Especially when they look like this? Why do we allow a miniscule segment of the population the ability to financially destroy and ruin something cherished by the mass majority because of "their feelings?"